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Hydrodimerization of acrylonitrile

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    A method was developed for the reductive dimerization of acrylonitrile to adiponitrile.

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    The reductive dimerization of acrylonitrile occurs at the surface of the amalgam. The intermediately formed radicals are not desorbed into the body of the solution and do not possess the properties characteristic of free radicals in solution.

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    Reductive dimerization does not proceed through the stage of formation of organomercury compounds.

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  1. Institute of Heteroorganic Compounds of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    Y. L. Knunyants & N. S. Vyazankin

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  1. Y. L. Knunyants
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Knunyants, Y.L., Vyazankin, N.S. Hydrodimerization of acrylonitrile. Russ Chem Bull 6, 253–256 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01170564

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